Details include:
Visitor arrivals: 115,701, -46.9% year-on-year;
- India: 18,309, -41.0%;
- UK: 13,010, -48.4%;
- Germany: 8385, -22.5%;
- France: 7142, -36.8%;
- China (including Hong Kong and Macau): 6926, -74.8%;
- Netherlands: 6385, -52.1%;
- Australia: 5619, -36.2%;
- Maldives: 3875, -39.0%;
- Canada: 3826, -36.4%;
- US: 2974, -58.5%.
Sri Lanka tourism showed signs of revival in July with an 83 percent increase in tourist arrivals from the previous month after plunging over 70 percent following the Easter Sunday bomb attacks on churches and hotels.
According to the latest data from the Tourism Ministry, total number of international tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka during July was 115,701, up from 63,072 reported in June 2019.
However, in comparison to July 2018, there was a decline of 46.9 percent when the arrivals were 217,829.
In July the largest source market for tourists was India, followed by the United Kingdom and Germany.
As at 31st July 2019, 1,124,150 of tourists had visited Sri Lanka for this year. It is a decline of 18.7% over last year when 1,382,476 of tourists has visited the country during the same period.
Europe became the largest source of tourist traffic to Sri Lanka with 50% of the total traffic received in July 2019.
Asia and Pacific accounted for 38% of the total traffic, America 6%, Middle East 5% and Africa 1%.
The total number of visitors to the island hit a record 2.33 million in 2018, up 10.3 percent compared to 2017.
India, United Kingdom, Germany, France and China were Sri Lankas top five international tourist generating markets in the month of July this year.
India was the largest source of tourist traffic to Sri Lanka with 16% of the total traffic received in July 2019. United Kingdom accounted for 11% of the total traffic; while Germany, France and China accounted for 7% and 6% both respectively.
Tourism Observer
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